CHART OF THE DAY: Here's How Much Russia Controls Of The World's Most Important Commoditieshttp://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-russia-commodities-2014-4/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:22:31 -0400Mamta Badkarhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/535927e26da811f338aaa876yes, it is trueThu, 24 Apr 2014 11:04:02 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/535927e26da811f338aaa876
The slow economic bleed of the USSR by the NATO allies is what brought down the USSR and caused its downfall. Since then corruption has become the way in Russia, and they are now even more vulnerable to economic sanctions because of it and the greed it has ignited. Other countries are absolutely salivating at the idea of moving their gas and oil to Europe to replace Russian stocks and getting rich in the process. All NATO has to do to break Russia is stop buying Russian oil and gas. Without the revenue they have so greedily come to depend on, the wealthy oligarchs in Russia will apply pressure to Putin to either back down or step down. Nothing talks bigger than money, and Putin needs to learn the lessons of the past instead of repeating Russian mistakes. Putin needs to pull his troops out of Ukraine and let that country shape its own destiny free of Russian influence and corruption.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53575332ecad04f7539307a6Jungle JimWed, 23 Apr 2014 01:44:18 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53575332ecad04f7539307a6
Sanctions are NOT an alternative to war, they ARE a form of war. That the warfare is financial rather than military doesn't make it less of a war. The sanctions are meant to create damage to punish and to coerce. The problem is that they invite retaliation and escalation. Once egos become involved, it is a small matter for the sanctions to morph into physical warfare. That is exactly what led Japan to attack Pearl Harbor. We hit them with sanctions in the form of an oil embargo over their invasion of China.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/535722a5ecad04692b9307a5MCPOTue, 22 Apr 2014 22:17:09 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/535722a5ecad04692b9307a5
This a two way street the US should consider very carefully. There is a possibility that Russian may initiate retaliatory actions, either economic or even physical, against U.S. companies and/or their executives should further sanctions be imposed.